Phyllis Bottome (1884–1963)
Autore di The Mortal Storm
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Opere di Phyllis Bottome
Windlestraws 5 copie
The Belated Reckoning 4 copie
Level Crossing: A Novel 4 copie
Mansion house of liberty 3 copie
Our new order - or Hitler's? : a selection of speeches by Winston Churchill, The Archbishop of Canterbury, Anthony… (1943) 2 copie
Broken Music 2 copie
The Perfect Wife 2 copie
Masks and faces 2 copie
The Derelict and Other Stories 2 copie
Kingfisher, by Phyllis Bottome 2 copie
Fortune's finger : short stories 1 copia
Not in our stars 1 copia
HEART OF A CHILD/DUTY FREE/LUDMILA/THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE/ALASKA:THE LAST FRONTIER/TALES OF THE CARIBBEAN (1959) 1 copia
Helen of Troy and Rose 1 copia
The victim and The worm 1 copia
The derelict and other stories 1 copia
Lille Ben og Big Ben 1 copia
A certain star 1 copia
Murder in the bud 1 copia
Walls of glass 1 copia
The Crystal Heart 1 copia
Life, the interpreter 1 copia
The master hope 1 copia
The imperfect gift 1 copia
The common chord 1 copia
The advances of Harriet 1 copia
The captive 1 copia
Secretly armed 1 copia
A Servant of Reality 1 copia
The depths of prosperity 1 copia
Wild grapes 1 copia
Strange fruit, stories 1 copia
Tatter'd loving 1 copia
Best in Books 1959 1 copia
Opere correlate
Georgian Stories 1924 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Bottome, Phyllis
- Nome legale
- Forbes Dennis, Phyllis
- Data di nascita
- 1884-05-31
- Data di morte
- 1963-08-22
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Rochester, Kent, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Rochester, Kent, England, UK
Vienna, Austria
Kitzhubel, Austria
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
London, England, UK
United States of America - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short story writer
essayist
biographer
memoirist - Relazioni
- Adler, Alfred (teacher)
Dennis, Nigel (nephew)
Fleming, Ian (student)
Pound, Ezra (friend)
Novello, Ivor (friend)
Thompson, Dorothy (friend) - Breve biografia
- Phyllis Bottome was the pen name of Phyllis Forbes Dennis, born in Rochester, Kent. Her parents were the Rev. William MacDonald Bottome, an American-born clergyman, and his English wife, Mary Leatham Bottome. According to her memoirs, she had an unstable childhood and a patchy education. She began writing novels as a teenager, and also contracted tuberculosis, which caused her health problems for the rest of her life. In 1917, she married Ernan Forbes Dennis, a British diplomat working undercover for the British Secret Service as a passport control officer. During World War I, she was active in relief efforts for refugees and assisted John Buchan at the Department of Information. While in Vienna, where her husband was stationed, she studied Alfred Adler's theory of Individual Psychology with Adler himself. In the 1920s, she went to the Austrian mountain village of Kitzbühel for her health and with her husband started an experimental school for difficult British schoolboys. One of their more famous students was Ian Fleming. In the 1930s, the couple were posted to Nazi Germany, the inspiration for her prescient and best-known novel, The Mortal Storm (1937). It was adapted into the first openly anti-Nazi Hollywood film in 1940 and helped to blunt the isolationist stance in the USA. Three more of her works – Private Worlds (1934), Danger Signal (1939), and The Heart of a Child (1942), were also adapted into films. Over her 60-year writing career, she published 34 novels, several of them bestsellers, plus short stories, essays, biographies and memoirs. She also lectured widely in Britain and the USA. She was a friend of many other writers and artists, including Dorothy Thompson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Max Beerbohm, Ezra Pound, Daphne du Maurier, Violet Bonham Carter, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Storm Jameson, Pamela Hansford Johnson, and Ivor Novello.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 64
- Opere correlate
- 9
- Utenti
- 256
- Popolarità
- #89,547
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 24
The remarkable thing about this novel is that it was written in 1938 and doesn’t pull any punches about the growing Nazi threat nor its inhuman practices and potential for atrocity. It’s a remarkably prescient read that, unfortunately, still has resonance today in its look at the effects of fanaticism of all shades.
It is a difficult read at times due to both its subject matter and its verbose 1930s writing style, but it deserves to be more widely read and discussed.… (altro)